My oldest boy, Jayce, is an enthusiastic young angler and it’s a treat to share the water with him as it is a welcome reminder of my early days of fishing. Days when it didn’t matter what was biting as that’s pretty much what me, my brother and some buddies were targeting. Just fishing.

Well, in the blog banner picture above from June 2016 that is pretty much what Jayce and I were up to although primarily anticipating a bluegill bite. While it is always refreshing to cast alongside your kids, one particular bite on this day was a trophy as Jayce landed his first ever bass. I heaped on the congratulations as I was proud of my boy and his accomplishment in fooling his dad’s favorite fish. We shot this pic and a couple others to show Papa when we saw him next and headed out shortly to do a little bragging to Mama.

Returning to our campsite, I encouraged Jayce to tell his Mama about our day, letting him do the honors on his special catch. As he related the tale, he said that he was so happy when he landed the bass that he “almost cried.”

Don’t get much more of a trophy catch than that.

Can’t resist a few more fishing pics of this fishing buddy.

Do you know how hard it is to actually hook one this small?  Takes some skill and I chuckle every time I see this pic as you can nearly see through the fish.

This is gonna come in real handy one of these days.

Now a seasoned bass angler with several more like this in his ledger from 2017.

Jayce is already chomping at the bit to kick off the 2018 fishing year and I’m hoping to grant his wish, more sooner than later.  Talk to you later. Troy